Chapter 1; Tournament of Heroes

As he strolled along through the grass, a flicker of movement caught his eye, and he looked up to try and identify it. Ooh! A Pidove! I was wondering when I'd be seeing one of those. Hopefully I can... His thoughts froze for a moment as he turned to keep it in his view, and suddenly realized that the tiny pigeon Pokemon was headed directly for Aethon. Oh, shi- "Aethon, look out!"

Luke smiles broadly as Abaddon accepts his new name. "Awesome! We're gonna be a great team, I know it!"

He looks up at the sky, and notices it's gonna get dark soon-ish. "We should probably head back... maybe I can get some grooming in, maybe teach you some stuff before it gets to late. Hmmm..." He thinks for a moment, before recalling both Maia and Abaddon. "Get back for now guys. I'll let you out once we've reached town." With that, he begins the walk back to town, heading straight for the center to at least get Gawain and Abaddon patched up fully.

"Hey-," Jack starts as the pokeball gets swatted away, but stops. "Oh, I get it. You're still upset about your old trainer...," he said kindly. "That's alright," he said, putting the pokeball away, "you can hang out with us for as long as you like, and if you decide you want to train with us, we can make it official later," he grinned. "Or, if you think it would help you get to know us, we could have a battle. I'm sure Bolt wouldn't mind, right buddy?," he asked, looking at his Pichu pal.

Jack

The Mankey huffs a little before nodding. It looks like it wants to test how good of a Trainer Jack is before he travels with him. Bolt looks to Jack and gives a little nod as well, showing he knows what this battle stands for.

The Mankey stands a few meters away from the duo, and screeches for the fight to begin, though Bolt was able to react at almost that exact same moment

Luke

The Trip back towards the Center was mostly uneventful for Luke, though once he was almost back in town, he heard a somewhat familiar voice and the sounds of battle in a nearby clearing. Gawain looked up at him with worry, not sure if they should check it out or leave it be

Azrael

As Aetheon smashes into the bird, sending it back a few meters, it retaliates with an even more powerful gust of wind. Unlike last time, Aetheon had no time to dodge the air, the hit striking him harder than even the Pidove had expected.

Dave

As Hal floats towards the disc, a small opening appears on his face, mimicking a mouth in it's placement. As Dave inserts the disc, Hal begins to glow a soft green, zeroes and ones flashing across his body replacing his familiar pastel colour scheme. As the numbers move quicker and quicker, his body began to soften, his hard corners rounding out and his head shrinking in size. Slowly, the numbers begin to disappear, replaced with a slightly darker Pink and Blue.

The new and improved Hal now floated in front of Dave, beeping with a slightly different sound then before as he looked at his trainer once more

Dave casts an approving look at the evolved Hal. "Impressive. Those Silph guys aren't half-bad." He nods, able to let the irritation from the previous battle fall away, before saying "Well, I should probably take you back to the Center. Make sure that everything's working out fine. Maybe you could try stretching those circuits and check out the new PokéDex, see how it holds up..."

Jack

Bolt charged up less than usual before letting loose a blast of static electricity at the Mankey, striking it hard but the Pig Monkey rolled with the strike, moving up and slashing past Bolt, causing the little Spark Mouse to cry out!

Luke

The training went well, Gawain taking to teaching like a Magikarp takes to splashing, and Abaddon grasping the tactics of battle quicker than Luke had expected. Towards the tail end of his training, Luke had the feeling that someone was watching him, and heard a slight giggle as Abaddon and Maia had a mock battle.

Dave

Hal nods in understanding and began to hover gently back towards the Pokemon Center. The walk back is oddly silent, no more wild Pokemon coming near the pair. As Dave made it back to the Center, the Nurses eyes went wide as she realized she was going to have to work on the Artificial Pokemon once more

The walk back to the center was too quiet... Luckily, Dave had some music on his PokéNav to help alleviate that. So, that at least helped pass the time.

Entering the center, Dave notices the Nurse is apparently about as happy to work on Hal as he is to have her work on him. Well, they would both have to suck it up. Sadly.

Relinquishing Hal to be healed, Dave decides to do the prudent thing, and use the PC system to see what information he can glean on the "Team Plasma" people from earlier. It might be prudent...

Jack

Bolts static charge danced across the Mankey, causing the Pokemon to struggle to move. A moment later, the electric mouse released the second strike, causing the Mankey to wince once more.

As Jack throws the ball, it struck the Pig Monkey with no problems, the ball shaking for less than a second before the sweet chime of success rang out across the forest

Luke

The giggling grew louder as Catelynn stepped out from behind a nearby tree, Rose floating by her side "Sorry for peeking. I just saw you training and didn't want to interrupt. Both of those Pokemon seem to listen to you really well!" She said with a smile

She looked down and kicked the ground a bit "Ummm the reason I came out here was to say thank you. Rose was hurt and everyone else was panicking but you stood up to Team Plasma and chased them off. It was really cool"

Dave

The nurse reluctantly heads into the back with Hal, and Dave hears a loud "OH COME ON" a few minutes later, most likely when they realized that the Program Pokemon had evolved.

Settling into the PC he begins his research. being able to find out some basic info on the group from news articles. They had attacked once under the leadership of the Hero of Truth, paired with the Legendary Dragon Reshiram, who were stopped by the Hero of Ideals and Zekrom, who had set out from Nuvema Town. Two years later, they attacked again, led by a man named Colress and freezing half of the region from their flying frigate. They were stopped by a trainer from Aspertia City and the return of their King.

However, there are some sites Dave tried to get into that seemed to lock him out, and it would take a bit of effort to get into them and whatever info they have....

Luke smiles as he sees Cat. He blushes at her praise though, he too looking downward in embarrassment. "Thanks but... it wasn't all that much what I did. You'd have done the same if... you know, Rose wasn't hurt..." Which was kinda my fault... he panics a bit, and quickly tries to divert the topic of the discussion. "But yeah, they seem to listen to me pretty well. These are Maia and Abaddon" - he indicates each mon in turn - "I only caught them this afternoon, after the whole Plasma stuff and the thing with the show... Oh, you probably don't know this yet, but apparently me and the other guys who battled have automatically qualified for the finals, or semi-finals, I guess, so I guess I'm already pretty close to fullfilling my promise to you! That's pretty cool, right? The show that was gonna follow the winner of the tournament is apperantly also going to be starring us instead..." His mood drops a bit after the last statement, despite some of his excitement about it, it still kind of freaked him out.